Grain Quotes - Page 2

Duty is what goes most against the grain, because in doing that we do only what we are strictly obliged to, and are seldom much praised for it.

Covetousness bursts the sack and spills the grain.

There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies.

I take New Years with a grain of salt and three aspirins.

The more fodder, the more flesh; the more flesh, the more manure; the more manure, the more grain.

I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.

Wherever there is a grain of loyalty there is a glimpse of freedom.

For every grain of wit there is a grain of folly.

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

This is what happens when you go against the grain of truth. You get splinters later on.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

When a Wall Street analyst or broker expresses optimism, investors must take it with a grain of salt.

We have become so accustomed to hearing everyone claim that his product is the best in the world, or the cheapest, that we take all such statements with a grain of salt.

Early on I learned to question everything. But I feel like everything is so divisive right now. Going against the grain would be to not be divisive and be inclusive. That's the disruptive way to go about it.

I've never had that fear of going against the grain.

You have to be like the pebble in the stream, keeping the grain and rolling along without being dissolved or dissolving anything else.

A charmed life old goodness hath; the tares may perish, but the grain is not for death.

What I do for migraines when I get them, I listen to classical music, and I turn it up really loud.

I always wanted to go against hat grain because it was too restricting.

It may seem draconian, but the best recommendation I can make is to completely avoid grains.

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

If you could understand a single grain of wheat you would die of wonder.

You have to take everything I say with a grain of salt.